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Finding Missing Indexes That Django Wants (Postgres)

2009 November 18

On Monday at work, our sites started to slow to a crawl. We looked to diagnose the problem, and found that the database server had a load of 10, and was struggling to keep up with the morning rush of traffic. After EXPLAINing the slow queries from the slow query ...

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